Face To Face With Killers
By Faraz Shauketaly-Sunday, October 20, 2013
Journalists are a different species entirely. Well, I would say that but consider the inherent risks. Actuaries would be foolish if they did not load the risks when being asked to insure the life of a journalist practising that rather peculiar art in Sri Lanka. That is to say, because – for whatever reason – journalists have been at the receiving end of a number of attacks on their person, they have been threatened, cajoled, beaten up, threatened, insulted by having their parents and grandparents also remembered, kidnapped or held against their will, shot at and yes, even sadly, murdered. Their loyalties have been held up high and questioned by all and sundry, even at the highest echelons of power. Doubts, aspersions and whatever else have been cast on their allegiances and their very existence on Mother Earth questioned. The reasons could well be many and the credible evidence, varying in credibility, but in all instances, these incidents have been significantly contrary to common law.